Message Left By Bodies Of Calif. Couple Adds Eerie Chill To Murder Case

The scene was grisly enough already when a San Jose, Calif., couple was found shot to death inside their home. It became even more sickening when police read the message scrawled next to the bodies of Shamima Rabbi, 57, and Golam Rabbi, 59.

“Sorry my first kill was clumsy,” said the message written in ink on the floor where the bodies were found, and first reported by KGO-TV.

San Jose police said the “incident was not a random act of violence and the suspect was someone familiar to the family.”

The couple was discovered Sunday. Media accounts say family and friends used an unlocked sliding glass to enter the house because they had not heard from the couple for several days.

One media account said the couple’s nephew found them dead near the home’s laundry room.

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“It’s the most shocking news in my life,” their nephew, Golam Mustakim, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “I was very close to them with all my heart. I have no words to explain how I am feeling. I want to believe they are still alive. I want the killer to be found. I want to know why it was necessary to kill them like that.”

The couple had two children, aged 17 and 21. Neither were home when their parents were slain. Police are seeking to interview the older son. They have ruled out the younger son as a suspect.

The couple had lived in the United States for more than 30 years after emigrating from Bangladesh. Both were Muslim. Police are not treating the murders as a hate crime.